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B-8 Wednesday, March 3, 2021 The Press-Dispatch HISTORY Submit history photos: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Source: www.history.com • Photo source: www.biography.com Wednesday, March 3 • Police brutality caught on vid- eo (1991) • First indoor game of ice hock- ey (1875) Thursday, March 4 • Abraham Lincoln inaugurated (1861) • Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz di- vorce (1960) Friday, March 5 • Churchill delivers Iron Curtain speech (1946) • Hula Hoop patented (1963) Saturday, March 6 • Georgia O'Keeffe dies (1986) • Supreme Court rules in Dred Scott case (1857) Sunday, March 7 • Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first female director to win an Oscar (2010) • Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone (1876) Monday, March 8 • Malaysia Airlines flight vanish- es with more than 200 people aboard (2014) • V W bus, icon of counterculture movement, goes into production (1950) Tuesday , March 9 • The Barbie doll makes its debut (1959) • President Eisenhower criticiz- es Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954) Spurgeon grade school —1937 Spurgeon grade school in 1937 included first and second grades. First row: Unknown, unknown, Bill Green, Frank Wade, Carl Eugene Cato, unknown Nixon, Robert Chapman, Charles Schmidt and James Sharber. Second row: Wilma Tatum Frakes, unknown, Jerry Holder, Doris Willis Stigall, Paul Gene Riddle, Ruth Theiring Pollard, Viola Gieselman Floyd, Levaun Lance Luff and Jane Winland McGregor. Third row: Rosalie Bailey Henager, Carol June Fowler, Byron Brammer, Colleen Riddle Logston, John McGregor, Max Parke, June McK- inney, David Bailey, unknown, Pauline Parke Tyler and Mary Jo Smith. Four row: Lloyd Clark, Norman W. Erwin, Paul Gene Davis, Victor Oxby, Violet Oxby Mason, Carmaletta McMurtry Zenthoefer, Myrtle McKinney Gentry (teacher) and Eugene Riddle. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, Mar. 1 and Mar. 5, 1946 Norman Hudson, veteran of many months' service in the South Pacific area, was found dead, authorities say, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday afternoon. The body was discovered by Mark Mar- shal, member of a search par- ty, lying near an expanse of backwater of the Patoka Riv- er, not far from his home. Mr. Hudson, according to his wife, Mildred, had been extremely nervous since re- ceiving a discharge from ser- vice. He had borrowed a sin- gle barrel shotgun from his father-in-law, Charles Pow- ers, Saturday. When he failed to return home when his wife waiting many hours, a search party was organized and his body found. He had removed his shoe and, it was thought, had discharged the gun with his toe. According to coroner Opal Brenton, he had been dead since Saturday. He was a graduate of Winslow High School and had attended busi- ness college. Before entering service, he was employed as bookkeeper by the Wilkinson Lumber Company in Winslow and he resumed his position upon his return. It is said that the accounts were all up-to- date and his personal check signed to his wife. He enlist- ed in the Army April 13, 1941, and was discharged at Camp Attersbury, November 9, 1945, with 88 points and an envi- able record. He spent almost two years overseas, where he served as staff sergeant with Battery A, 163 Field Artillery on Luzon and New Guinea. He possessed three battle stars, Asiatic-Pacific and American Theatre ribbons, American Defense Service Medal, Phil- ippine Liberation Bronze Star and the W WII Victory Medal. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Oris Cox, twin daughters, at their home in Algiers, Friday, March 1; To Mr. and Mrs. Leo Woods, a son, Leo Wes- ley, at their home in Dutch- town, Tuesday, February 25; To Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Fowl- er, a daughter, at there home Sunday, March 3. Marriages: Josephine Hud- son and Charles B. Stewart were married at Wesley Me- morial Church Thursday af- ternoon; Mildred Cluster and Joe Tislow were married Sat- urday afternoon at the home of friends; Louise Shelton and Leon Galvy Hostetter were married at the parsonage of the First Methodist Church Thursday at 10 a.m. Deaths: Luther Cox, of Pe- tersburg, died Thursday after- noon at his home; Henry Pan- cake, 77, of Petersburg, died Monday at the home of his daughter in Evansville; Eddie Lynch, Sr. 73, of Ayrshire, died Friday evening at his home; SIXTY YEARS AGO The Pike County Dispatch Thursday, Mar. 2, 1961 During recent weeks, a rash of break-ins have been report- ed in Pike County. Over the weekend and during the first part of the week, two more have been reported. The two break-ins reported by police this week were ones which netted the thieves very little reward. Damage to property was the highlight of one break- in in Winslow and having the owner of the business walk in during the theft foiled anoth- er. The sheriff's car, which is county property, was heavily damaged in the one break-in. Monday night, thieves broke the glass out of the overhead door on the north side of Mc- Cord's Auto Sales in Winslow to gain entry to the garage. Once in the garage, they pried open the door between the ga- rage and the office. In the of- fice, they found a large safe which was unlocked and con- tained nothing but valuable books and papers belonging to the business. Possibly an- gry because no money was in the safe, the thieves scat- tered all of the papers from the safe over the floor. They also ransacked the drawers of the desks in the office and scattered other records on the floor. They also pulled books and papers from un- der the counter and left them on the office floor. Unable to find any money in the office, it is thought they then broke open the Coke and cigarette machines and took this mon- ey so their efforts would not be in vain. A fter finding little int he office, they apparent- ly went back into the garage, where they spotted the sher- iff's car. Taking a hammer or some instrument from the ga- rage, they broke out the wind- shield of the car, broke the headlights and smashed the red light on top of the car. The car was in the garage for repairs. A window down- stairs where tires and batter- ies were stored was also bro- ken. However, it is thought the thieves went from the building through a small door beside the large one which they used to enter. The smaller door was sprung and left standing open. Sunday morning, two young men, one from Peters- burg, and the other from Ca- to, broke into the Conner Tav- ern operated by Jackie Dee Chamness. The pair helped themselves to some money, which was in the cash drawer, looted a box with some mon- ey in it and were breaking in- to the jukebox when Chamess walked in on them. Chamness had been sleeping on a cot he had placed in a store room at the rear of the tavern when he heard the noise in the front of the building. When he walk- ing in and the thieves saw him, they fled, dropping the mon- ey bag, which they were try- ing to fill, on the floor. Police were called and the pair were picked up Monday morning on the information given them by Mr. Chamness, who rec- ognized the men. No charges had been place against either of them at 10 am. Wednesday, according to the Pike County Sheriff's Office. According to Deputy Sheriff Allen Smith, the two men being held int he Pike County Jail in connec- tion with the attempted rob- bery are Glen Deffendoll, of Petersburg, and Loren Ash- by, of Cato. Shortly before noon Wednesday, a second degree burglary charge was placed against Deffendoll and a charge of buying beer for a minor was filed against Ash- by, Petersburg City Police re- ported. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. T.D. Thompson, of Cato, a son, born Monday in Daviess County Hospital. Deaths: Louetta Johnson, 73, of Algiers, died Tuesday at 1:30 a.m. at Jasper Memo- rial Hospital; Myrtle Sorgi- us, 76, of Pike County, died at Myers Nursing Home in Washington at 2:15 a.m. Sun- day; James Cook, 76, of Pike County, died at his home Feb- ruary 20 ; Norella Judy Short, 67, of Pike County, died at 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Oak- land City Hospital. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, Mar. 4, 1971 Charles M. Green, struc- tural engineer of M and W, Inc., re-inspected Petersburg High School building Tuesday morning. The first inspection of the building made by the firm was on July 23, 1970. At the time, the condition of por- tions of the building were de- termined to be critical and portions were condemned. Tuesday morning, prelimi- nary reports showed there has been movement of the south wall of the 1925 struc- ture. The latest movement has been enough to cause separa- tion between ceiling and side- wall of the top section. Other portions of the building show slight movements or chang- es. Based on preliminary re- ports, there appears to be no eminent danger of collapse. However, more thorough re- ports are being prepared. To prevent injury of persons from falling plaster, plans are to cov- er ceilings with plywood. The Petersburg Housing Authority, which began nego- tiations in January 1979 with the Housing and Urban De- velopment agency, in Chicago, for federal funds to construct low-rent housing in the Peters- burg community, have come to a temporary impasse. Ac- cording to officers of the Pe- tersburg Housing Authority, an application was submitted to HUD requesting 200 low- rent housing units. Following routine processing of the ap- plication, HUD officials set a tentative allocation of 20 units for Petersburg. This low num- ber of units was most disap- pointing and seemed unreal- istic to officers and members of the local authority. Contacts were made with U.S. Senators Hartke and Bayh, Congress- man Roger Zion and oth- er public officials asking for their support and influence in raising the number of units. Following these contacts, lo- cal officials were advised by HUD's regional office that a review of the Petersburg ap- plication could be made. In so doing, information is needed in support of the application for low-rent housing. In order to judge the effective need for low-rent housing, the region- al office requires a list of inter- ested low-income families and individuals, their incomes, ag- es and whether they are own- ers or renters. In order to ob- tain this information, a form has been prepared and is pub- lished in today's issue of The Press-Dispatch. All interested people are urged to fill out the form and return it, in person or by mail, to the Petersburg City Hall as soon as possible in order that this information can be submitted with applica- tion for review. Officials of the Petersburg Housing Authority are hoping to obtain approval for an 80 -100 unite high rise. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Paul Newton, Petersburg, Fri- day, February 26 at Good Sa- maritan Hospital, a daughter, Annita Jane; To Mr. and Mrs. John Bolin, of Oakland City, at Wirth Memorial Hospital, Tuesday, February 2, a son, Gerald Gene; To Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Winkel, of Winslow, Tuesday, February 23 at Jas- per Memorial Hospital, a son, Anthony Lee. Deaths: Floyd Burkhart, 69, of Bowman, died at 9 p.m. Saturday, February 27 at Gib- son General Hospital; Randall Keith Cannon, 6 -month-old son of Ed and Sherrill Whit- tington Cannon, of Peters- burg, died Monday, March 1 at 3:40 a.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital; Archie Harper, 77, of Petersburg, died Wednesday, February 24 at 9:05 a.m.; Ar- thur Dorsey, 77, of Cato, died at 8 a.m. Friday, February 26 at Memorial Hospital. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, Feb. 29, 1996 A man accused of raping and murdering a 15 -year-old Evansville girl in Pike Coun- ty is set to go on trial August 26 in Pike Circuit Court. Le- on Jones, 21, of Ann Arbor, Mich., is charged with mur- der, rape while using dead- ly force, and criminal devi- ate conduct while using dead- ly force. Jones is accused of raping, beating, stabbing and driving a truck over 15 -year- old Shannon Wentzel's body several times, before dump- ing her body along a single lane road in southern Pike County early December 9. Po- lice say Wentzel got in a Ford Ranger pickup with Jones, Kelly Craig, 16, and James Brian Powell, 24, at about 10 :20 p.m. December 8, after Craig offered to give Wentzel a ride home from a McDon- ald's restaurant in downtown Evansville. Police said instead of giving her a ride home, the three went joy riding in War- rick and southern Pike Coun- ty, mudding the 4x4 truck. Then when they stopped and got out of the truck, Jones fol- lowed Wentzel to the back of the truck and hit her in the head with a bottle and began the attack. Jones could face the death penalty or life in prison without parole if con- victed. Indiana law allows the death penalty when a murder is committed during a rape. Births: To Phillip and Amy Macy, of Petersburg, at Da- viess County Hospital, Feb- ruary 12, a daughter, Britta- ny Jean. Deaths: Ervin J. Ropp, 74, of Petersburg, died at 10 :30 p.m. Wednesday, February 21 at his residence; Berne G. Boruff, 78, of Oakland City, died Wednesday, February 21 at 5:06 p.m. at his residence; James P. Howard, 93, of Vel- pen, died at 8:43 a.m. Wednes- day, February 21 at Memorial Hospital in Jasper; Bernice L. Ritter, 68, of Petersburg, died Friday, Feb. 23 at 12:01 a.m. at her residence; Delta V. Jones, 96, of Francisco, died at 9 a.m. Thursday, February 22 at Pe- tersburg Healthcare Center. O N L I N E • S M A RT P H O N E • TA B L E T sgstartimes.com/edition Web, Smartphone, Tablet Streamline the Headline! 812-753-3553 • 203 S. McCreary St. Fort Branch, IN • ads@sgstartimes.com

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